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Native American Literature Symposium March 27-29, 2014 Minneapolis, MN
The Native American Literature Symposium is organized by an independent group of Indigenous scholars committed to making a place where Native voices can be heard. Since 2001, we have brought together some of the most influential voices in Native America to share our stories—in art, prose, poetry, film, religion, history, politics, music, philosophy, and science—from our worldview. Gwen N. Westerman, Director Minnesota State University, Mankato Virginia Carney, Tribal College Liaison Leech Lake Tribal College, President Emerita P. Jane Hafen, Awards Chair University of Nevada, Las Vegas Gordon Henry, Jr., Publications Editor Michigan State University Patrice Hollrah, Vendor/Press Coordinator University of Nevada, Las Vegas LeAnne Howe, Arts Liaison University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Denise Cummings, Film Wrangler Rollins College Theo Van Alst, Film Wrangler Yale Jodi Byrd, Associate Advisor University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Jill Doerfler, Associate Advisor University of Minnesota, Duluth Margaret Noodin, Associate Advisor University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Associate Advisor University of Manitoba Dennis Herbert, Assistant to the Director Minnesota State University, Mankato The Native American Literature Symposium PO Box 541 Mankato, MN 56002-0541 www.mnsu.edu/nativelit Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Wopida, Miigwech, Mvto, Wado, Ahe’ee, Yakoke We thank the sponsors of the 2014 Symposium for their generous funding and continued support that made everything possible. The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community The Redd Center for Western Studies The American Indian Studies Series, Michigan State University Press American Indian Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures The College of Arts & Humanities at Minnesota State University, Mankato The Office of Institutional Diversity at Minnesota State University, Mankato The College of Liberal Arts at The University of Nevada, Las Vegas The Native American Institute at Michigan State University Thank you to the following presses and vendors for their contributions: Linda Brown Charlie Stately, Woodland Native Crafts Debbra Meyers Mitchell Zephier Birchbark Books Living Justice Press Michigan State University Press University of Arizona Press University of Nebraska Press University of Oklahoma Press We also extend our gratitude to the following people who work behind the scenes at Minnesota State University, Mankato to keep everything functioning and who provide invaluable encouragement for our cause: Department of English Liz Olmanson, Secretary College of Arts and Humanities Walter Zakahi, Dean And we appreciate the kindness of the following people who contributed support for our student participants: Padraig Kirwan Becca Gercken Zabelle Stodola Nancy Peterson Connie Jacobs Ami Regier
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Haŋ mitakuyapi, Welcome back to Mni Sota Makoce, the land of the Dakota! We have much to be thankful as we gather together and greet another beautiful spring. Celebrating our 15th year of sharing our stories and our ideas, we are grateful to the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community for welcoming us to their conference facilities at Mystic Lake Casino Hotel. Wopida taŋka! This year, our regular program begins on Thursday with “A Story of Blood and Politics” which will give us insight into the constitutional reforms of the White Earth Nation that occurred in 2013. “Enduring Critical Crows” return with their creative and provocative caw-and-response approach to collaboration. Film night will feature Heid Erdrich’s contemporary short animated films before the screening of Daughter of the Dawn, a remastered 80-minute, six-reel silent film shot in July of 1920 in the Wichita Mountains of southwest Oklahoma. With an all-Indian cast of 300 Comanches and Kiowas, the film features as lead actor White Parker, the son of the great Comanche leader Quanah Parker. Thanks to Denise Cummings who is bringing us this gem! Mona Susan Power, Eric Gansworth, and Louise Erdrich are our featured authors, and will be sharing their latest novels with us. In addition, we welcome Manitoba writers David Alexander Robertson, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, and Duncan Mercredi as they read from their contributions to Manitowapow. The Mazinaate Book Blitz is set for Friday morning where publishers and press representatives will participate in a lightning round to talk about their new Native titles for 2013 and 2014. Enjoy the fun and the breakfast! On Saturday, we get a rare opportunity to hear the musical works of Zitkala Sa, with a roundtable and performance of The Sundance Opera. Be sure to visit our vendors and watch for the author signings each day at 3:00 in the Grand Ballrom Exhibit Hall. Once again our participants come from across the globe—Jordan, China, England, Canada, Poland, Greece—and from Florida to Alaska. Our topics represent the broad range of discourse in our fields, as well as recognize the integral role of tribal ways of knowing and telling our stories. We know the power of stories, and we cherish our indigenous way of life that holds generosity and sharing as one of our highest values. Thank you for coming to share with us once again. Wopidapi kta ota uŋyuhapi. Henana epe kte. Gwen N. Westerman
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Book Exhibits and Vendors Visit the vendors and book exhibits in Grand Ballroom 2. Thursday and Friday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Saturday 9:00 am to 3:00 pm Thank you to the following presses and vendors for their contributions:
Presses
Birchbark Books Living Justice Press Michigan State University Press University of Arizona Press University of Nebraska Press University of Oklahoma Press
Vendors
Linda Brown Charlie Stately, Woodland Native Crafts Debbra Meyers Estella Young Mitchell Zephier
Conference Room Map Registration table is outside of Grand Ballroom 1. Plenaries, meals, film screening, Louise Erdrich’s book signing are in Grand Ballroom 1 Breakout Session Rooms Session A - Little Crow 1 Session B - Little Crow 2 Session C - Shakopee Room Vendors and Exhibits are in Grand Ballroom 2
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Thursday, March 27 8 am - 4 pm
Registration
Vendors and Exhibits
9 am - 5 pm
Welcome and Traditional Blessing by Glenn Wasicuna
8:30-8:45 am
Session 1: Plenary (Grand Ballroom) A Story of Blood and Politics: The White Earth Constitutional Reform Effort “It Is Time to Take Our Own Leadership”: Constitutional Reform, 2007-2009 Jill Doerfler, University of Minnesota - Duluth
10:30 - 11:45
9:00 - 10:15
2013: The Road to the Referendum Terry Janis, Project Manager for the White Earth Nation Constitution Reform Passions and Preservation: An Ethnographic Study Keara Moyle, Brigham Young University The Voice of the People: Citizen and Descendant Perspectives Jeani O’Brien, University of Minnesota Kimberly Blaeser, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Amber Blaeser-Wardzala, White Earth Ojibwe Youth Citizen
Session 2
A (Little Crow 1)
B (Little Crow 2)
C (Shakopee Room)
Indigenous Literature in the Classroom
Global Connections in Women’s Writing
Marked by the Past
Redrawing the Literary Map: Inviting Jane Johnston Schoolcraft’s Poetry into the Classroom Lindsey Jungman, U of Minnesota - Duluth
Strong Women Make Strong Nations: Women, Literature, and Sovereignty in Woolf and Allen Kristen Czarnecki, Georgetown College
Indigenizing Outcomes and Assessments While Teaching Who We Are Now Grace Chaillier, Northern Michigan University
The Aesthetics of Global Experience: A Study of Traveling Identities in Walker, Olsen, and Howe Eman Ghanayem, U of IL Urbana-Champaign
Teaching Native Literatures to NonNative Students: A Presentation of Students’ Experiences Lori Cohen, The Bay School of San Francisco
Reviving the Living Past: On Writing Native Historical Fiction Greg Rodgers, U of IL Urbana-Champaign Transcriptions on Skins: Reading Scars in Five Native Novels Jane Haladay, U of North Carolina-Pembroke
A Comparative Research Analysis of Native American and Scottish Female Playwrights Megan Malcom-Morgan, University of New Mexico
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Thursday, March 27 Session 3: Lunch Lunch with Mona Susan Power 12:00 - 1:15
Born in Chicago, Mona Susan Power is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe (Yanktonnai Dakota). She is descended on her mother’s side from Chief Two Bear (Mahto Nunhpa), who defended his village in the battle of White Stone Hill, and on her father’s side from the Civil War governor of New Hampshire. Named Ms. Indian Chicago at eighteen, Power went on to earn an undergraduate degree from Harvard College, a JD from Harvard Law School, and an MFA from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, Voice Literary Supplement, and Story, among others, and was selected for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories and The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Fiction. She is the author of Sacred Wilderness, The Grass Dancer, and Roofwalker which won the Milkweed National Fiction Prize. She currently teaches at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Session 4
A
1:30 - 2:45
Aristotle, Marx, and an Indian Walk into a Conference... Native American Writing and the Social Meanings of the Literary Matthew Herman, Montana State U, Bozeman “Nowadays you educate an Indian and he becomes a Marxist”: Marxism and Indigenism Jungmin Kim, Cornell University Sherman Alexie as the Survivance Storyteller: “Blasphemy” and the Amalgamation of Trickster Narration and Aristotelian Rhetoric Kimberly Connon U of Massachusetts, Boston
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C
Contemporary Issues in Education and Identity
Life Writing in Indian Country
From Boarding Schools to Building Student Success: A Cultural-Historical Review of the Federal TRIO Programs and Indigenous Student Populations Laura Decker-Huggins, The College of Southern Nevada
“You ARE the Father!”: Paternity, Living Descendants, and Bureaucracy in Writing Ojibwe History Erik Redix, U of MN - Duluth
Sustainable Resilience Development Model for Native People Leslie McQuilkin, University of Phoenix Mining, Reacting, Exploding, Remaining: Nuclear (Re)Production from Appalachia to Japan Jessica Bardill East Carolina University
Settler Colonialist Biopolitics and Native American Life Writing: Representation, Critique, Resistance Rene Dietrich, U of Mainz (Germany) “A Wonder Among the Nations”: Ranald MacDonald as the Anti-Crusoe Miriam Schacht, U of Wisconsin Oshkosh
3:00 - 3:30
Refreshment Break and Book Signing Featuring Mona Susan Power and Gwen Westerman Sponsored by the College of Arts and Humanities at Minnesota State University, Mankato 6
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Thursday, March 27 Session 5 Enduring Critical Crows: Caw & Response A Performance Reading
3:30 - 4:45
And the crow said these stories seem familiar but I’ve never heard them before; we must need new stories or new ways to tell them. Jesse Peters, University North Carolina Pembroke Gordon Henry, Michigan State University Kimberly Blaeser, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Molly McGlennen, Vassar College Jane Haladay, University North Carolina Pembroke
5:00 - 6:00
Dinner on your own Session 6 NALS Film Night Animated Video Poems by Heid Erdrich
6:00 - 10:00
Feature Film Daughter of Dawn by Norbert Miles Denise K. Cummings, Rollins College Heid Erdrich’s video poems are a treat for the eye and the ear! These innovative short films will inspire us all. Daughter of Dawn is an 80-minute, six-reel silent film shot in July of 1920 in the Wichita Mountains of southwest Oklahoma. The story, played by an all-Indian cast of 300 Comanches and Kiowas, includes a four-way love story, two buffalo hunt scenes, a battle scene, village scenes, dances, deceit, courage, hand to hand combat, love scenes, and a happy ending. The lead actor is White Parker, the son of the great Comanche leader Quanah Parker. And of course, we will have popcorn! Scene from Daughter of Dawn
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Friday, March 28 8 am - 4 pm
Registration
Book Blitz (Ballroom)
9 am - 10:15 am
10:30 - 11:45
Session 7 A (Little Crow 1)
B (Little Crow 2)
C (Shakopee Room)
Literature and Language Preservation
Film and Fiction by Richard Van Camp
Negotiating Locations: What Happens When Half the Class Is Indigenous?
Siceca Wowapi: Dakota Children’s Stories Cantemaza Neil McKay, University of Minnesota Scott Demuth, University of Minnesota Politics of Tribal Languages Represented in N. Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn Anlu Xu, Shanghai International Studies University The Origins of Critical Nationalism: The Literature and Criticism of Dakota Writer & Scholar Elizabeth Cook-Lynn Sarah Hernandez, U of Colorado at Boulder
Panel Chair Scott Andrews, Cal State Northridge The Power of Storytelling in Richard Van Camp’s Film “Firebear Called Them Faith Healers” Patrice Hollrah, U of Nevada Las Vegas
Roundtable Chair Becca Gercken, U of Minnesota, Morris and U of Minnesota, Morris Students:
The Lesser Blessed and Approaches to Teaching Contemporary Native Cinema Martha Viehmann, Sinclair Community College
Ashleigh Thompson Kelli Thiel Eric DuMarce Liv Klemek Virginia Godfrey Casey Liebhard Natasha Myhal
“Broke but Not Broken”: A Dene Reading of Richard Van Camp’s Torchy Angela Semple, Simon Fraser University
Lunch (Grand Ballroom)
12:00 - 1:15
Readings from Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writing from the Land of Water David Alexander Robertson, a Swampy Cree, is a bestselling graphic novelist and writer. He focuses on educating youth about indigenous history and contemporary issues. David weaves his message about social change into his popular speaking engagements across Canada. He is currently the co-creator and script writer for the upcoming television series The Reckoner. Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair is Anishinaabe, originally from St. Peter’s (Little Peguis) Indian Settlement near Selkirk, Manitoba. A regular commentator on Indigenous issues for CTV, CBC, and APTN, he is also a co-editor of Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water; Centering Anishinaabeg Studies: Understanding the World Through Stories; and The Winter We Danced: Voices of the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movement. Duncan Mercredi is a Cree/Metis Poet/writer/storyteller originally from Misipawistik (Grand Rapids, MB). He has four books of poetry published and has also had his work featured in three anthologies of Native writings and in other periodicals such as Prairie Fire and CV2.
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Friday, March 28 A
Session 8
1:30 - 2:45
Imagining Her Stories in a Contemporary Age: Decolonized Publication Space Tanaya Winder, As/Us Editor-in-Chief Tria Andrews, U of California, Berkeley Casandra Lopez, As/Us Co-Editor
B
Humor in Balance and Out of Balance
C
The Resistance of Contemporary Visual Art
The Dark Humor and Satire of Thomas King’s Short Fiction John Kalb, Salisbury University
Osama Ken Barbie: A Bowl Full of Stories Barbara K. Robins, U of Nebraska - Omaha
Humor as Balance Beam Lynn Patrick Doyle, Montana State U, Bozeman
Engaged Resistance: Historical Landmarkers and Road Signs on the Oglala Lakota Reservation Brian Twenter, University of South Dakota
Quirks of the Commode Jamie L. Kuehnl, Northern Michigan Univ
Pop Go the Indians: Pop Culture Imagery in Native Art Scott Andrews, Cal State Northridge
Statement on Ethnic Fraud The Native American Literature Symposium supports the Indigenous Professors Association Statement on Ethic Fraud “We the Indigenous Professors Association hereby establish and present our position on ethic fraud and offer recommendations to ensure the accuracy of American Indian/Alaska Native identification in American colleges and universities. This statement is developed over concern about the racial exploitation of American Indians and Alaska Natives in American colleges and universities. We think it is necessary to establish our position on ethnic fraud because of documented incidents of abuse. This statement is intended to assist universities in their efforts to develop culturally diverse campus communities. The implications of this statement are threefold: (1 to assist in the selection process that encourages diversity among students, staff, faculty, and administration; (2 to uphold the integrity of institutions and enhance their credibility with American Indian/ Alaska Nations/Tribes; and (3 to recognize the importance of American Indian/Alaska Native Nations/Tribes in upholding their sovereign and legal right as nations to determine membership. The following prioritized recommendations are intended to affirm and ensure American Indian/ Alaska Native identity in the hiring process. We are asking that colleges and universities (1 Require documentation of enrollment in a state or federally recognized nation/tribe with preference given to those who meet this criterion; (2 Establish a case-by-case review process for those unable to meet the first criterion; (3 Include American Indian/Alaska Native faculty in the selection process; (4 Require a statement from the applicant that demonstrates past and future commitment to American Indian/Alaska Native concerns; (5 Require higher education administrators to attend workshops on tribal sovereignty and meetings with local tribal officials; and (6 Advertise vacancies at all levels and on a broad scale and in tribal publications.”
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Friday, March 28 3:00 - 3:30
Refreshment Break and Book Signing Manitowapow Writers Duncan Mercredi, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, and David Alexander Robertson
3:30 - 4:45
Session 9 A
B
C
Empowerment Through Poetry
All of Our Relatives
Shifting Representations in Native Films
Changing Woman and Change in Luci Tapahonso’s A Radiant Curve Amy Regier, Bethel College
First Beings as Domesticated Species Brian Hudson, University of Oklahoma
The Empowerment of Native American Women Christina Wood, Troy University
The Reemergence of the Little People in Native American Literature William Huggins, Independent Scholar
Celebrating the Feminine Body in the Poetry of Nila Northsun Brett Burkhart, University of Oklahoma
How the Sunktanka Came to the Dakota Oyate Vanessa Good Thunder, Dakota Wicohan
Visual Sovereignty and On the Ice James Ruppert, U of Alaska Fairbanks The Cinematic Spoils of “War”: Mid-Twentieth Century Hollywood Representations of Pontiac’s War Eric Maynard, University of Rhode Island Animating Native Nations: Native Animated Films and Indigenous Sovereignty Channette Romero, University of Georgia
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Break Dinner and a Reading by Eric Gansworth
6:00 - 10:00
Eric Gansworth, a writer and visual artist, is an enrolled member of the Onondaga Nation. He was raised at the Tuscarora Nation, near Niagara Falls, New York. Currently, he is a Professor of English and Lowery Writer-in-Residence at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. He has published ten books, including the novels Mending Skins and Extra Indians, the young adult novel, If I Ever Get Out of Here, and the collection of poems and paintings, A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function. His first play, Re-Creation Story, was selected for the Public Theater’s Second Annual Native Theater Festival.
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Saturday, March 29 8 am - 4 pm
Registration
9 am - 3 pm
Vendors and Exhibits Session 10
A (Little Crow 1)
B (Little Crow 2)
C (Shakopee Room)
The Gothic and the Nouveau
Readings
Transnational Vizenor
9:00 -10:15
Regionalism, Nationalism, and the Gothic: A.A. Carr’s Eye Killers and Indigenous Literary Aesthetics Amy Gore, University of New Mexico Shifting the Indian Novel in Stephen Graham Jones’ All the Beautiful Sinners Melissa Michal Slocum, Arizona State University
Featuring: “Remembering the Native Grandmothers” and “Response to the Big Sky” Lisa Short Bull, Montana State University Selections from The Land of Infinite Variety: A History in Fragments Raul Moreno, University of South Dakota
The White Earth Constitution, Cosmopolitan Nationhood, and the Ironies of Relational Sovereignty Joseph Bauerkemper, U of Minnesota - Duluth Poetry as “By My Heart”: Vizenor’s “Almost Ashore” and “Bear Island: The War at Sugar Point” Molly McGlennen, Vassar College Almost in Blighty: Cathedral Cities & Circumlocutions in Hotline Healers David Stirrup, University of Kent The Columbian Moment: Overcoming Globalization in Vizenor’s Heirs of Columbus David J. Carlson, Panel Chair Cal State San Bernardino
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Saturday, March 23 Session 11 A
10:30 - 11:45
Seeing Two Things At Once: Reconciling Science and Indigenous Knowledge Panel Chair: Gordon Henry, Michigan State University A Sacred Center: Locating Native Science Fiction in Space and Time Miriam Brown Spiers, University of Georgia Timeful Thinking about Timeless Abstraction, or Bigfoot Lives! Carter Meland, University of Minnesota
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C
Justice, Class, & Crime
Ancestral Stories
Dreaming Diabetic Dreams Joanna Ziarkowska, University of Warsaw New Jurisdictions of Violence and Survivance in Native Literatures Joshua D. Minor, University of Iowa Red Noir: Examining the Possibilities for Indigenous Crime Literature David Weiden, Metropolitan State University of Denver
12:00 - 1:15
Do Native Languages and English Both Contain the Record of Animal Talk? Francesco Melfi, Cleveland State University
Session 12
Windigo, Overheard Dreams, and the Direct Impact of Story: Vengeful Agency as Influenced by Ancestral Stories in Louise Erdrich’s The Round House Diana Filar, University of New Mexico Many Voices, One Woman: Interpreting Jane Johnson Schoolcraft’s “Moowis” Christina Boyles, Baylor University Native American Literature Then and Now: Remembering Ella Cara Deloria and Beatrice Medicine as Literary Scholars Kelly Morgan, Independent Scholar
Lunch on Your Own
ASAIL Business Meeting (Little Crow 1) Boxed lunch provided for ASAIL members
1:45 - 3:00
Session 13 (Grand Ballroom)
Zitkala Sa’s The Sundance Opera Roundtable and Performance Katherine Young Evans, Westminster College P Jane Hafen, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Meg Singer, Westminster College Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Saturday, March 23 Refreshment Break/Book Signing
3:00 - 3:30
LeAnne Howe and Eric Gansworth
Session 14 A
B
C
Tribal Identities & Epistemologies
Wikindigenous: Creating Space For Native American Writing
Inter-related Stories
3:30 - 4:45
Oklahoma Choctaw, Regionalism and Don L. Birchfield Steven Sexton, University of Oklahoma “Don’t Mess with Indian Women”: Memory and Recovery in Betty Louise Bell’s Faces in the Moon Lizz Toombs, University of Oklahoma
Panel Chair: Molly McGlennen, Vassar College
Panel Chair: Karen Poremski, Ohio Wesleyan University
Indigenizing Wikipedia: Student Accountability to Native Authors Siobhan Senier, University New Hampshire
Changing the Story: Polycentric Narration in Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road Laura Adams Weaver, University of Georgia
Minority Literatures in Majoritarian Cyberspaces: Reclaiming Wiki for Indigenous Discourse James Mackay, European University Cyprus WikiProject Indigenous Peoples of North America: Struggle Within Charles J. Lippert Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe
5:00-6:00
Move Over Pocahontas: Cynthia Leitich Smith’s and Susan Power’s Resistive Romance Mandy Suhr-Sytsma, Emory University Book of Mormon Stories: music, scripture and the making of a “Lamanite” identity Elise Boxer, University of Utah
Break and Louise Erdrich Book Signing Dinner and a Reading by Louise Erdrich
6:00- 10:00
Louise Erdrich is the author of thirteen novels as well as volumes of poetry, short stories, children’s books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel Love Medicine won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse was a finalist for the National Book Award. Most recently, The Plague of Doves won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2012, she won a Minnesota Book Award and the National Book Award for The Round House. Louise lives in Minnesota and is the owner of Birchbark Books, an independent bookstore.
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List of Presenters Andrews, Tria, 8A Andrews, Scott, 7B, 8C Bardill, Jessica, 4B Bauerkemper, Joseph, 10C Blaeser, Kimberly, 1, 5 Blaeser-Wardzala, Amber, 1 Boxer, Elise, 14C Boyles, Christina 11C Brown Spiers, Miriam, 11A Burkhart, Brett, 9A Carlson, David J. 10C Chaillier, Grace 2A Cohen, Lori, 2A Connon, Kimberly, 4A Czarnecki, Kristen, 2B Decker-Huggins, Laura, 4B Demuth, Scott, 7A Dietrich, René, 4C Doerfler, Jill, 1 DuMarce, Eric, 7C Evans, Katherine Young, 13 Filar, Diana, 11C Gercken, Becca, 7C Ghanayem, Eman, 2B Godfrey, Virginia, 7C Good Thunder, Vanessa, 9B Gore, Amy, 10A Hafen, P Jane, 13 Haladay, Jane, 2C, 5 Henry, Gordon, 5, 11A Herman, Matthew 4A Hernandez, Sarah, 7A Hollrah, Patrice, 7B Hudson, Brian, 9B
Huggins, William, 9B Janis, Terry, 1 Jungman, Lindsey, 2A Kalb, John, 8B Kim, Jungmin, 4A Klemek, Liv, 7C Kuehnl, Jamie, 8B Liebhard, Casey, 7C Lippert, Charles J. 14B Lopez, Casandra, 8A Mackay, James, 14B Malcom-Morgan, Megan, 2B Morgan, Kelly 11C Maynar, Eric, 9C McGlennen, Molly, 5, 10C, 14B McQuilkin, Leslie, 4B Meland, Carter, 11A Melfi, Francesco, 11A Minor, Joshua, 11B Moreno, Raul, 10B Moyle, Keara, 1 Myhal, Natasha, 7C Neil McKay, Cantemaza, 7A O’Brien, Jeani, 1 Patrick Doyle, Lynn, 8B Peters, Jesse, 5 Redix, Erik, 4C Regier, Amy, 9A Robins, Barbara, 8C Rodgers, Greg, 2C Romero, Channette, 9C Ruppert, James, 9C Schacht, Miriam, 4C Semple, Angela, 7B
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Senier, Siobhan, 14B Sexton, Steven, 14A Short Bull, Lisa, 10B Singer, Meg, 13 Slocum, Melissa Michal, 10A Stirrup, David, 10C Suhr-Sytsma, Mandy, 14C Thiel, Kelli, 7C Thompson, Ashleigh, 7C Toombs, Lizz, 14A Twenter, Brian, 8C Viehmann, Martha, 7B Weaver, Laura Adams, 14C Weiden, David, 11B Winder, Tanaya, 8A Wood, Christina, 9A Xu, Anlu, 7A Ziarkowska, Joanna, 11B
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We Remember Those Who Have Made the Road Easier For Us Richie Havens (1941 - 2013) Folk singer, activist, and the famed opening act at the 1969 Woodstock music festival. Richie Havens offered his commitment both as a Blackfoot Indian and as a performer at Native American Music Awards. Havens’ Woodstock appearance earned him widespread notoriety and led to two high-charting albums.
George Paul Horse Capture Sr (1937 - 2013) Born and raised in Montana, a proud member of the A’aninin (Gros Ventre) tribe. He served in the Navy as a shipfitter for four years and later moved to Montana where he taught at the College of Great Falls from 1974 to 1977. He became one of the first Native American curators in the country in 1979.
Maria Tallchief (1925 - 2013) Maria grew up in Osage Country and went to New York to become one of the most brilliant American ballerinas of the 20th century. Among her honors, she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1996.
Alyce Spotted Bear (1945 - 2013) Known by her Nueta name of “Lead Woman” – Numakshi Mihe, she was vice president of the Native American Studies and Tribal Relations at the Fort Berthold Community College in New Town. A citizen of the Three Affiliated Tribes, she held a national role as an adviser on Indian education.
Elijah Harper (1949 - 2013) Born in Red Sucker Lake, he became chief of the reserve when he was just 29 years old. Harper’s most well-known moment was when he stood in the Manitoba Legislature in 1990, held up a single feather and voted no, killing the Meech Lake Accord.
Albert White Hat (1938 - 2013) Instrumental in teaching and preserving the Lakota language and provided translations for the actors in Dances with Wolves. The first native Lakota speaker to publish a Lakota textbook and glossary, White Hat was considered an activist for traditional ways of living and for the preservation of the language.
Charlie Hill (1951-2013) Member of the Turtle Clan of the Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin. He moved to Hollywood, where he forged a successful career as an actor, writer and stand-up comedian. The first American Indian comedian, he broke down many stereotypes about Native Americans, and loved his time at NALS.
August Schellenberg (1936 – 2013) Canadian-born Métis actor of Mohawk and SwissGerman nationality. He was trained at the National Theatre School of Canada. Schellenberg won both a Genie Award and a Gemini Award for his performances.
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